California Supreme Court· 10/27/1994

Soule v. General Motors Corp.

Citations

882 P.2d 298
8 Cal. 4th 548
34 Cal. Rptr. 2d 607
94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 8207
94 Daily Journal DAR 15133
1994 Cal. LEXIS 6027

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holding that the consumer expectations test was not appropriate for a claim that a car was defective because the wheel assembly detached in accident
observing that “if the expectations of the product’s limited group of ordinary consumers are beyond the lay experience common to all jurors, expert testimony on the limited subject of what the product’s actual consumers do expect may be proper”
refining Barker test and holding that the “consumer expectations test is reserved for cases in which the everyday experience of the product’s users permits a conclusion that the product’s design violated minimum safety assumptions,” (emphases omitted

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Judges: Baxter, Mosk, Arabian

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